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a verj' short entire beak, nut obovoid bluntly trigonous with a 
beak, I. narrow linear channelled rouqh at the edges throughout. 
—E. B. 2043. R. 238. B. 216.— Creeping. St. 1 ft. high. 
L. and bracts very slender. Gl. purple, usually with a green 
keel, about as long as the pale fr. which is broadest above the 
middle. Nut pale. — ^Spongy bogs. P. VI. E. S. I. 
40. C. viafjeUaniea (Lam.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 drooping upon 
long stalks oblong densely-fiowered with occasionally a few 
male fl. at their base, biucts auricled leatiike rather broad nearly 
flat, gl. ovoid-lanceolate attenuate acute,/?-, rottndish-ovoid com- 
pressed faintly ribbed with a very short entire beak, nut elliptic 
triangular with a beak, /. linear smooth at the edges except 
near the tip.— ^. B. S. 2895. R. 238. B. 219. C. irrigua 
(Sm. ex Hoppe). — Creeping. St. a foot or more in height. 
L. and bracts 2 or 3 times as broad as in the preceding, dl. 
n'holly jmyyleVLswiiWy longer than the pale fr. which is broadest 
below the middle. Nut pale. — Spongy bogs in the North, rare. 
P. VI. E. S. I. 
41. C. rarijiora {^m..) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 droo2}ing 'a^on 
long stalks oblong few-flowered, lax, bracts with very shortsheaths, 
gl. very broad blunt as long as the fr., fr. oblong with 3 blunt 
angles, beak extremely sliort entire, nut roundish-oblong, 1. Hat 
rough-edged towards the tip. — E. B. 2516. B. 217. — Creeping. 
St. 6 — 8 in. high, smooth. Gl. folded round the fr., dark brown ; 
midrib pale, terminating in a minute ajnctdus. Fr.'pale, faintly 
veined; nutdarker. — Elevated bogs in the Highlands. P. VI. S. 
42. C. capilldris (L.) ; fertile spikes droojnng upon long 
half-included stalks, few-flowered lax, one bract sheathing 
several stalks, gl. blunt, fr. oblong trigonous turgid narrowed 
below veinless with a slender membranous beak, nut obovoid 
triquetrous blunt with a short beak. — E.B 2069. Schk. O. 56. 
H. b. 53. R. 241. — St. very slender, 2 — 6 in. high, smooth. 
Peduncles rough, several usually enclosed in one sheath. Gl. 
short, broad, blunt, midrib not reaching the tip, falling short 
of the small smooth brown fruit. Nut pale. Roof tufted. — 
Teesdale. Scottish Highlands and near sea-level in Suther- 
land. P. VI. E. S. 
43. C. strigosa (Huds.) ; fertile sjrikes drooping about 4 distant 
rather long slender lax lower with exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 
sheathing,/}-, oblong danceolate narrowed at both ends trigonous 
veined with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptic triangular 
punctured, 1. broad.— ^. B. 994. Schk. N. 53.— St. 2 feet high. 
Sheaths nearly covering the peduncles. Gl. elliptic-lanceolate, 
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